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Followed by two more pages describing each piece of food on the table in as much detail as possible.
Lotr was clearly written when people had more time on their hands.
Lotr's time use and verbosity is nothing to me, I've read Robert Jordan's works.
This is all based on my weak memory, but I read maybe half Robert Jordan's wheel of time and dont remember having the same issue. I can't remember why I didnt finish the series though, so maybe it was a bit too drawn out for me after all.
I recal lots of joking about being paid by the word, even he himself made jokes about the length of his novels, when he was dying while trying to finish the last of the story he said Tor would have to invent a new binding method because he was going to fit it all into the last one, no matter what. Sadly he didn't have enough time but left enough worldbuilding behind.
I think they might have been some of my favorates in part because of the length tbh, I'm a very fast reader.
It is nice to spend so much time in a well built world, I should go back and reread/finish it.